>>>>In an old piece of a program certain text is still displayed using @ SAY.
>>>>
>>>>There is a text that contains a tab character. I have seen that it was nicely extended to some spaces, but now it isn't. Instead, it displays a square character.
>>>>
>>>>There must be some SETting that causes this, but I can't find it. Who has a clue?
>>>
>>>you have to use "?" command if you want to see tabs. With @say that's impossible (I know so) .
>>>
>>>
>>>@10,1 say ""
>>>?"fkdfks"+chr(9)+"vkxmvkxcmvkcvmk"
>>>
>>>
>>>that works...
>>
>>It is a message, including tabs, for an error handler I wrote some days ago. When testing it, it displayed well. Yesterday it didn't. I'm inclined to say you're right, but it would also imply that I was seeing wrong that first time.
>
>Was it late Friday night, after a few beers maybe? :-)
Was it friday night? Can't remember anymore. :-)
>A solution is
>#define chr(9) replicate(chr(32),3)
The character was supposed to indent to a certain column. Anyway, I have decided to adjust the message and remove the tabs.
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